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Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgradeHave an existing Angular 1 application and are wondering about upgrading to Angular 2? Well, read on and learn about our plans to support incremental upgrades.SummaryGood news!We’re enabling mixing of Angular 1 and Angular 2 in the same application.You can mix Angular 1 and Angular 2 components in the same …

Enter json schema Someone wise once said that the best thing about standards is that there are so many choose from. Clearly having a standard is no panacea, but in this case json schema gave me a way to express exactly what I needed without much fuss. I’m not going to try to break down all of json schema for …

Data Persistence One last major piece of the puzzle that is AngularJS 2.0 is the persistence story. AngularJS started with pure XHR request support (through $http and $resource). Sockets were introduced through third-party services and integrations. Offline support was done through LocalStorage on a per-application basis. These have become common enough in applications nowadays that rethinking the core AngularJS communication …

You’ll Want an ES6-based FrameworkThe transition to ES6 introduces a challenge to all existing frameworks. When using ES6 becomes practical, frameworks that take advantage of its features such as classes and “native” modules would look a lot more attractive than those that do not. Angular 2.0 is AngularJS’s team response to that challenge. It is a framework that is based on …

AngularJS Dependency Injection from The Ground Up via AngularJS Dependency Injection from The Ground Up. Excellent walk through of creating a simplified version of the built in NG DI system that really helped me gain a deeper understanding of this topic.